CSD-3366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paralanguage, Pragmatics, Proxemics

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-3366
• Professor: Emily Rose Lakey

Document Summary

Result of planning & executing specific motor sequences. Includes components of voice quality, intonation, & rate. Face-to-face conversation, nonspeech is 60% of info exchanged. "socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols. " Relationships between sounds, sound units, and the combinations of those sound units is specified by the rules of a language. Dialects "subcategories of the parent language that use similar rules but not identical. " Speech language hearing association definition of language is on p. 6. Coding "is a factor of the speakers and listener"s shared meanings, the linguistic skills of each, and the context in which the exchange takes place. " Language is not a static set of rules, it is a process of use and modification within the context of communication. "the exchange of information and ideas, needs and desires, between two or more individuals. " Both speech & language are part of communication.